Posted by Joe Schmoe on July 20, 2001, at 18:27:30
...and I feel terrible. The Klonopin worked for a week or two, but I have had to start upping the dosages already to maintain effectiveness. 1 mg in the morning and .5 mg in the afternoon just isn't cutting it. The Wellbutrin made me feel great the first three days with lots of energy and no appetite, then it just kind of faded away, felt like taking sugar pills, no side effects, nothing. Now I am spinning down into a deep depression with suicidal thoughts and feelings of anger and hatred toward everybody and everything. I have urges to leave my significant other and just drive away and keep going in a random direction till I hit some state far away and settle down there.
This actually feels a lot like what happened when I took Serzone. Felt manic the first few days, then just felt normal, then a deep depression hit which lasted for weeks and weeks till I hit a really high dosage. I have heard of this effect from Serzone but not from Wellbutrin. Is this a phase, or is this drug just going to suck as much as Serzone and Paxil did? I will wait a little longer and see. So far every AD I have tried has made me feel worse than when I started. I am starting to think the dysthymia is better and I should forget the ADs and just treat the social phobia with Klonopin alone.
I have heard people say good things about Wellbutrin but all of them seemed to find it activating. Me, I slept 11 hours yesterday. I don't find it activating at all, although the Klonopin could be masking it somewhat.
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